ACTING OF THE IRISH PLAYERS; A Lack of Method Which Has Been Unduly Regarded as a Sign of Greatness -- No Stage Illusion Without Art -- The Plays and the Cause.

IN a sense, the Irish Players are entitled to our sympathy. It is no fault of their own, perhaps, that they have been exploited out of proportion to their merits; that they have been heralded as actors of a most unusual quality, as exponents of a natural method quite apart and above that which is to be observed in the playing of any actors on this earth.

November 26, 1911

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